Joe, the song was the Geto Boy’s first charting single with the classic line-up of Scarface. Geto Boys Geto Boys - My Mind Playin Tricks on Me, Geto Boys - Still, Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta. The song appeared on the group’s sixth album, The Resurrection, and was used on the Original Gangstas soundtrack. Scarface has worked steadily through the years, dropping new records and cameos at a feverish pace. Geto Boys The World Is A Ghetto (1996) The World Is a Ghetto is a single by the Geto Boys. The Geto Boys enjoyed success in the 1990s with the groups classic lineup consisting of Bushwick Bill, Scarface and Willie D, earning several certified albums and hit singles, including 'Mind Playing Tricks on Me' which reached No. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. The Geto Boys is an American hip hop group originally formed in Houston, Texas. Willie D released a solo LP in '00, and Bushwick Bill has put a few albums out as well. 'Mind Playing Tricks on Me' by Geto Boys sampled Isaac Hayess 'Hung Up on My Baby'. The original three got back together in '96 for The Resurrection. Blocked from distributing their 1990 major-label debut by Geffen - who insisted that a track dealing with necrophilia as well as murder was a. Former Convicts emcee Big Mike was added to the fold, and a revamped lineup continued to record. Though the controversial subject matter of gangsta rap wasn't much of a barrier to popular success during the '90s, the Geto Boys' recordings proved almost too extreme for widespread exposure. The song 'Mind of a Lunatic' has been covered by many. The core group split up in 1993, and all the members embarked on solo careers. The Geto Boys popularity was boosted somewhat in 1999 by the prominent use of two songs 'Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta' (released as a promotional single for the 1992 compilation album Uncut Dope) and 'Still' (from The Resurrection) in Mike Judges comedy satire film Office Space. Their 1991 release We Can't Be Stopped contained the breakthrough hit "Mind Playing Tricks On Me," a classic track about drug-induced paranoia. Fusing fierce production with ultra-hardcore rhymes that casually detailed lifestyles rife with drugs, sex, and murder, they found love in the new but fast-growing Gangsta Rap circuit.
They began as the Ghetto Boys back in the mid-1980s, and released debut Grip It! On That Other Level in 1989. A pioneering gangsta crew repping Houston's Fifth Ward, the Geto Boys were the first southern group to find national fame.
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